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Hi there! I’m Christiana Coop from Ferm Living and Hygge & West, and I’m so excited to be a guest blogger today as I simply adore From the Right Bank. Ally’s posts are the source of so much inspiration, and I really appreciate how the community she’s created here is so warm, open and insightful. Not surprisingly, I’m going to talk about a design trend that is close to my heart – wallpaper. I love interior design that incorporates a mix of old and new to create a unique, personality driven, space. In my opinion, nothing can help create the right balance between traditional and contemporary quite like wallpaper. Here are some of my favorite examples:

Let’s start things off with a bang. This room boldly shows how a graphic, modern wallpaper can mix in with vintage acrylic pieces, a classically shaped day bed and rustic secretary to create an eclectic room that is certainly not lacking in personality. [Image via Decorno.]

Here’s another more subdued example of combining a modern wallpaper with mid-century furniture and a traditional chandelier to create an original (and gorgeous) space. [Image via NYT.]

The more ornate pieces in this lovely dining room are made fresh and fun by adding in a modern wallpaper backdrop. [Image via Apartment Therapy.]

On the other hand, traditional wallpaper designs, like the retro flowers and damask above, add whimsy to, and help soften the harder edges of, modern furniture. [Images via Emmas Designblog.]

Here, a more classic floral backdrop of wallpaper mixed with an ultra modern coat tree and simple floor lamp make this room one of a kind. And, just so pretty! [Image via Purple Area.]

This hallway is a divine balance of old and new – classic wainscoting juxtaposed with a modern, metallic wallpaper. [Image via Envelope A+D.]

Like the hallway, here’s another lovely example of accentuating the traditional architectural details of a space with wallpaper. The vintage inspired linear and damask wallpaper patterns in bright modern colors, mixed with clean-lined furniture and unexpected lighting create a balanced (and amazing!) space. [Image via Purple Area.]

I’ll end with this picture because, to me, it is the quintessential mixing of eras to reflect a unique personality. The wallpaper is its own mix of modern and retro and really makes the traditional white shelving pop. Neon seating, a rustic table painted in a trendy color, modern lighting, a classic rug and vintage kitchen accessories are a daring mix I would never be able to dream up. But, somehow it all works together beautifully! [Image via Elle Decor.]

Thanks so much for sharing in my wallpaper obsession. If you haven’t had enough wallpaper chat, we talk about it pretty much all the time at Ferm Living’s Clever Spaces and Hygge & West’s Picnics Under the Moon. We’d love to have you visit!

Outdoor living is a dream for many apartment owners and a reality for house owners. Although simply having a backyard isn’t enough. It’s an extension of your home so it must be a beautiful and comfy place in order to make pleasure of spending time there great. These ideas are inspired by Belgard Hardscapes works on real projects. Whether your plans include a cozy courtyard or an expansive patio or terrace with all the amenities you can get some ideas how to make this place truly beautiful and relaxing.

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CODE is one of new amazing kitchen collections which were presented on Eurocucine 2010 by Snaidero. The collection consists of two distinctive versions Colour and Natural which are inspired by expressive colour and the natural elegance of wood relatively. Both series have finely crafted details and are ready to express tastes of different people. The collection is designed to not only to create a perfect kitchen but also to extend its functions to overlap with those of the living area. Code Colour offers a range of over 50 coloured lacquers with what you can create amazing combinations and make your interior dynamic and truly personal. Code Natural in the same time naturally expresses space and materials. Its minimalist style and genuine materials provide wellbeing to be enjoyed on a daily basis, as a requirement of life. { CODE by Snaidero }

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Sistema Concept is a very flexible furniture system for living room created by Italian manufacturer Doimo Design. High quality, style, flexibility and finishes are things that distinguish this furniture system from many other contemporary living room sets. The inspiration photos below could show you how to organize your storage without spoiling a room’s design. If the room is big enough there are plenty of ways how even with simple cabinets you can achieve something unique and stylish. Otherwise, if the room is small with a smart choice of cabines and finishes you can create enough of storage space which won’t be ugly. { DoimoDesign | Via: Furnishism }

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During Milan Design Week 2010, the Corian design store featured the “Smart-ologic Corian Living” exhibition that was designed by Karim Rashid.

The exhibition featured soft organic shapes realised through a morphic material to create a sensual living environment, a space that echoes the digital techno-organic world we live in, evoking an alternative way of experiencing the home environment.

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Photography by Leo Torri
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Description of the Smart-ologic Corian Living project by Karim Rashid:

The Smart-ologic Corian Living exhibition gave me the opportunity to develop a modular holistic house – a house that can be produced with minimal concave and convex panels and simple tooling. I have always been interested in this notion of a modular house, of efficient dwelling that can be erected simply and quickly, that can be inexpensive and democratic, and customizable with little cause and great effect. I always believed that architecture finally comes down to a system of components, but what we need are industrial elements that are more free form and flexible in their configuration as not to end up in the world of a grid. My other concern was to create these panels with less waste and to have the waste reused.

I wanted create a really positive, interesting, and artistic space for living that echoes the digital technorganic world we live in. Smart-ologic Corian Living also gave me a venue to design interior objects in DuPont Corian advanced surface using also the versions from the 2010 collections Eco-Concrete ed Eco-Terrazzo with recycled content – and other DuPont materials that could be mass produced in a similar biomorphic way. With these elements the spaces are fluid and human and can communicate an organic, soft, pleasurable domestic environment.

I believe that the design of Smart-ologic Corian Living is a metaphor for how technology, housing, furnishing, and space can work together to evoke an increased sense of experience, affect our psyche and bring us a better living, and also enable us to reduce the environmental imprint of our daily decisions and actions.

Like many experiments of the mid-century the house uses a single repeated flat panel. I started with the desire to have a modular system of a single molded panel of DuPont Corian. The panel in DuPont Corian is double layered with a panel of DuPont Energain, a new DuPont solution to enhance energy efficiency and comfort in homes. This system of panels could be reconfigured to different proportions and forms. This modularity was also amplified by the diversity of the color palette, by the multitude of colours of DuPont Corian.

I have also been given the possibility, first in the world, to create a design using an experimental version of DuPont Corian with bio-based ingredients and recycled content and I conceived the Eko Bench, a unique outdoor seating solution integrating a green mantle of grass planted into one of its undulating curves. I also liked to play with the strong materiality of DuPont Zodiaq quartz surface, which was also developed in a version with bio-based ingredients, creating a large and colourful seating area around a column, inspired by the mixing of organic elements with organic form.

The soft organic shape produced for this evocative home concept creates a womb-like structure that is conducive to energy efficacy through the sculptured form, no corners trap hot or cold air. The house relies on sustainable and smart infrastructure for energy consumption and production with water reuse and low impact construction.

With its capability to protect the envelope while letting it breathe, DuPont Tyvek building membrane contributes to the comfort of interior environments. The photovoltaic modules of DuPont, integrated into the roof, create environmentally-sustainable energy. All the lighting is LED for efficiency and low energy consumption and the radiant floors are powered by solar generated energy.

This concept of techno-organic house is the starting point for shaping a smart domestic environment, based on the performance of a variety of different materials and technologies. Enjoy.

Visit the DuPont Corian website – here.

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